Bbcode Guide

[Haggis]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

 

* What is BBCode?

 

Text Formatting

 

 

* How to create bold, italic and underlined text

* How to change the text colour or size

* Can I combine formatting tags?

 

Quoting and outputting fixed-width text

 

* Quoting text in replies

 

Generating lists

 

 

* Creating an Un-ordered list

* Creating an Ordered list

 

Creating Links

 

* Linking to another site

 

Showing images in posts

 

* Adding an image to a post

 

 

 

 

 

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Introduction

 

 

What is BBCode?

BBCode is a special implementation of HTML. Whether you can actually use BBCode in your posts on the forum is determined by the administrator. In addition, you can disable BBCode on a per post basis via the posting form. BBCode itself is similar in style to HTML: tags are enclosed in square braces [ and ] rather than < and > and it offers greater control over what and how something is displayed. Depending on the template you are using you may find adding BBCode to your posts is made much easier through a clickable interface above the message area on the posting form. Even with this you may find the following guide useful.

 

Text Formatting

 

How to create bold, italic and underlined text

BBCode includes tags to allow you to quickly change the basic style of your text. This is achieved in the following ways:

To make a piece of text bold enclose it in

 

Code:

[b][/b]

 

 

eg.

 

Code:

[b]Hello[/b]

 

 

will become Hello

 

For underlining use

Code:

[u][/u]

 

 

for example:

 

Code:

[u]Good Morning[/u]

 

 

becomes Good Morning

 

 

To italicise text use

 

Code:

[i][/i]

 

 

eg.

 

Code:

This is [i]Great![/i]

 

 

would give This is Great!

 

How to change the text colour or size

To alter the color or size of your text the following tags can be used. Keep in mind that how the output appears will depend on the viewers browser and system:

Changing the colour of text is achieved by wrapping it in

 

Code:

[color=][/color]

 

 

You can specify either a recognised colour name (eg. red, blue, yellow, etc.) or the hexadecimal triplet alternative, eg. #FFFFFF, #000000. For example, to create red text you could use:

 

Code:

[color=red]Hello![/color]

 

 

or

 

Code:

[color=#FF0000]Hello![/color]

 

 

will both output

 

Hello!

 

 

Changing the text size is achieved in a similar way using

 

Code:

[size=][/size]

 

 

This tag is dependent on the template you are using but the recommended format is a numerical value representing the text size in pixels, starting at 1 (so tiny you will not see it) through to 7 (very large). For example:

 

Code:

[size=1]SMALL[/size]

 

 

will generally be SMALL

whereas:

 

Code:

[size=7]HUGE![/size]

 

 

will be HUGE!

 

Can I combine formatting tags?

Yes, of course you can; for example to get someones attention you may write:

Code:

[size=4][color=red][b]LOOK AT ME![/b][/color][/size]

 

 

this would output LOOK AT ME!

 

We don't recommend you output lots of text that looks like this, though! It could get confusing. Remember that it is up to you, the poster, to ensure that tags are closed correctly. For example, the following is incorrect:

 

Code:

[b][u]This is wrong[/b][/u]

 

 

Quoting and outputting fixed-width text

Quoting text in replies

There are two ways you can quote text: with a reference or without.

When you utilise the Quote function to reply to a post on the board you should notice that the post text is added to the message window enclosed in a

 

Code:

[quote=""][/quote]

 

 

block. This method allows you to quote with a reference to a person or whatever else you choose to put. For example, to quote a piece of text Mr. Marcus wrote, you would enter:

 

Code:

[quote="Mr. Blobby"]The text Mr. Marcus wrote would go here[/quote]

 

 

The resulting output will automatically add: Mr. Blobby wrote: before the actual text. Remember that you must include the quotation marks "" around the name you are quoting -- they are not optional.

The second method allows you to blindly quote something. To utilise this enclose the text in

 

Code:

[quote][/quote]

 

 

tags. When you view the message it will simply show: Quote: before the text itself.

 

Generating lists

 

Creating an Un-ordered list

BBCode supports two types of lists, unordered and ordered. They are essentially the same as their HTML equivalents. An unordered list ouputs each item in your list sequentially one after the other indenting each with a bullet character. To create an unordered list you use

Code:

[list][/list]

 

 

and define each item within the list using [*]. For example, to list your favorite colours you could use:

Code:

[list]
[*]Red
[*]Blue
[*]Yellow
[/list]

 

This would generate the following list:

 

 

* Red

* Blue

* Yellow

 

 

 

Creating an Ordered list

The second type of list, an ordered list gives you control over what is output before each item. To create an ordered list you use

 

Code:

 [list=1][/list]

 

 

to create a numbered list or alternatively

 

Code:

[list=a][/list]

 

 

for an alphabetical list. As with the unordered list items are specified using [*]. For example:

 

Code:

[list=1]
[*]Go to the shops
[*]Buy a new computer
[*]Swear at computer when it crashes
[/list]

 

will generate the following:

 

 

1. Go to the shops

2. Buy a new computer

3. Swear at computer when it crashes

 

 

 

Whereas for an alphabetical list you would use:

 

Code:

[list=a]
[*]The first possible answer
[*]The second possible answer
[*]The third possible answer
[/list]

 

giving

 

 

1. The first possible answer

2. The second possible answer

3. The third possible answer

 

 

 

Linking to another site

 

Code:

[url][/url]

 

 

for example:

 

Code:

[url]http://www.phpbb.com/[/url]

 

 

Showing images in posts

 

Adding an image to a post

phpBB BBCode incorporates a tag for including images in your posts. Two very important things to remember when using this tag are: many users do not appreciate lots of images being shown in posts and second, the image you display must already be available on the Internet (it cannot exist only on your computer, for example, unless you run a webserver!). There is currently no way of storing images locally with phpBB (all these issues are expected to be addressed in the next release of phpBB). To display an image, you must surround the URL pointing to the image with

 

Code:

[img][/img]

 

 

tags. For example:

 

Code:

[img=http://www.phpbb.com/images/phplogo.gif]

Edited July 25, 2009 by Haggis

[Fanfare]

Is it possible to bold text within the code tag?

 

[Haggis]

[b]no i dont think so[/b]

Edited July 25, 2009 by Haggis

[Fanfare]

[b]no i dont think so[/b]

But I've seen people able to bold text inside the code tag though...I wonder how they do it.

 

[err0r]

it would have to be allowed in the bbcode conversion code

[takaharu_]

[b][u]This is wrong[/b][/u]

No it's not

 

Also note that if you want to use text in a URL (eg: TechGear) you can use:

[url=www.tg007.net]TechGear[/url]

 

You also missed:

 

[center][center] for centralising text.

[left][/left] to align left (default).

[right][/right] to align right.

[topic="100]Clickable[/topic] for linking to a topic.

[post="100]Clickable too[/post] for linking to a post.

[spoiler]spoiled again![/spoiler] for a spoiler tag.

[acronym="TG]TechGear[/acronym] for an acronym tag.

[youtube]

[/youtube] to insert a Youtube video.

[sub]text[/sub] to sub-script _{down here}.

[sup]text2[/sup] to superscript ^{up here}.

[s][/s] for strikethrough wrong words.

[indent][/indent] to indent text.

[sql]SELECT t.tid FROM a_table t WHERE t.val="This Value"[/sql] for SQL coding.

[html]<a href="test/page.html">A Test Page</a>[/html] for HTML coding.

[snapback]100[/snapback] for a clickable arrow to a post number.

[snippet]fileid[/snippet] for a snippet.

 

To test:

center

Topic link

Post link

Spoiler

A-C-R-O-N-Y-M

 

(Pretend there's a youtube video here)

 

Indent

SELECT t.tid FROM a_table t WHERE t.val="This Value"

<a href="test/page.html">A Test Page</a>

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Snapback

 

The snippet I don't have a file ID for...

 

There's also attachment management:

[attachment=461:asterisk.wav]

asterisk.wav

Edited July 26, 2009 by takaharu_

[Haggis]

[b][u]This is wrong[/b][/u]

No it's not

 

 

Just better syntax in my mind

 

some of those there i never knew about for example the sql one

[takaharu_]

When you post a... post, look at the bottom-right corner of the text entry box and you'll see a "BB Code Help" button. That tells you about most of them.

[Haggis]

When you post a... post, look at the bottom-right corner of the text entry box and you'll see a "BB Code Help" button. That tells you about most of them.

 

 

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